Would you at 45, money no object..

[FrigginJowls]

Have a lower facelift to get rid of jowls that have appeared, not terrible, definitely aging and bothers you every day?

Btw I'm really scared posting this here but interested to hear all sides, thanks

Yes.

I think age is almost irrelevant. I mean, clearly in most cases you wouldn't want serious work done much under 40, but there's always exceptions. I'm mid 40s and until recently looked much older due to 25 years of a painful chronic condition with meds that had caused my face to age prematurely. Others might have had loads of stress, worry etc which caused the same. I don't want to look younger necessarily, just my age, which thanks to injectables I now think I do, but I def wouldn't rule out surgery in the future.

I'm definitely jowly at 41. It's genetic. But it doesn't bother me. It's quite cute in a winston Churchill kind of way :)

Yes but I wouldn't have a classic face-lift unless it was really pronounced (the sagging that is). I'd try a 'Y' lift first with fillers and then if that didn't work, I'd look at a thread lift. It's best she sees a plastic surgeon though to determine exactly what the problem is as it could be general loss of volume, loose skin on the neck, receding chin, loss of teeth or all of the above.

I'm developing my mother's jowls so I think I'll be going for a thread lift in the next few years.

I was really quite jowly in my late 20s and early 30s. Cut way back on sugar and started exercising and the jowls have pretty much gone, part of general weight loss. Skin looks loads better too

no I wouldn't get a lower face lift
in 10 yrs time you'll want something else done as gravity and age start to show
slippery slope to constantly criticising your appearance

learn to accept ageing and focus on the beautiful things about your appearance

No. Things can and do go horribly wrong. My children are too important to me to potentially leave them without a mum for something that is purely cosmetic.

No. Surgery is a bad enough thing to go through if it's actually a medical necessity. I find the idea of cosmetic surgery (unless it's because of a terrible disfiguring accident or something ) utterly inconceivable. I'm simply not sufficiently invested in my appearance to ever even consider it.

Wow thanks for all the replies, 5 years ago if I was asked the same question I would have said a big fat no with the same reasons as many of you, but now things have changed! I guess I never expected jowls and no therapy on earth will help me accept them.

I look after my body I work out, eat healthy I'm slim and would never go down the tummy tuck, lipo, butt lift, boob job etc road as I know I can live with my body and control and make changes if needed but the jowls...

I've had fillers (no Botox as I don't mind my wrinkles) which have helped but jowls are jowls and only going one direction and they bother me, not doing it for anyone else just me, my face is much more rectangular, I don't like it I could wait 5 years but life is too short and I would rather have them gone now.

A liquid facelift could likely give me a pillow face effect so a no there, I just want rid of that sagging excess skin which I admit isn't terrible but bothers me and only a facelift will do.

I've looked into thread lifts but they have bad reviews and can really ruin your face, basically all that excess skin that is pulled goes nowhere and a top surgeon I met has done many a revision job on botched thread lifts.

Anyway someone mentioned a tv program where the woman had a facelift under local anaesthetic who walked out of surgery looking great with no bandages or bruising, and today I met that surgeon and now feeling excited.

Thanks again for replying, each to their own and all that jazz!

Not facial but I'd like to have my boobs lifted from there (looks at lap) to there (where they are when I raise both arms).
No silicone, just a tug on the old pectoral muscle.

I'd wait and see what you could have done with non-surgical things first- fillers, Botox, Dermaroller the 'Y' lift,...all kinds of things out there before the knife.

Look at the website of Dr Tracy Mountford - I know people who have used her and swear by her. I'd rather throw £3k at whatever someone like her could do if I were you. It's not true that you'd get the pillow-effect- that's what happens if it's done badly.

Yes. Why hate my appearance if I could fix it?
Go for it

No way. I wouldn't want purely elective surgery and even if I had the money I'd be thinking what good it could do if spent on things other than my face!